Financial Controller

Summary

We are the public body that looks after England’s historic environment. We champion historic places, helping people understand, value and care for them.

Historic England have a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our Financial Controller.

The role is based in Swindon - Hybrid working.

What you will be doing

As our Financial Controller, you will lead the financial accounting activities (including monitoring, evaluating and advising on accounting standards regulations, conceptual and financial reporting frameworks).

You will lead the transactional processing teams including overall day-to-day responsibility for transactional activities.

In this role, you will be responsible for delivery of excellent shared services, promoting and supporting effective financial control, process improvement and inputting into key business critical projects.

Who we are looking for

• Qualified CCAB accountant (or equivalent)
• Significant staff management experience
• Significant experience of working in a technical and/or transactional financial environment
• Focused on delivering to targets and deadlines, personally and as a team
• Advanced Excel skills
• Invests time in understanding and resolving customer issues

We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusion. If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we would be happy to discuss reasonable adjustments to the job with you. Having just won the Gold Award from MIND, we also recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance.

We are an inclusive employer and believe that flexible working options are for everyone. We want to make sure our working arrangements don’t prevent anyone from joining us because of their personal circumstances. We also want to provide you with the best balance in your home and work life that we can.

We are open to considering options including job sharing, part-time working, compressed hours working and different working locations, including hybrid working. Please visit our jobs pages or contact us to find out more.

Why work for Historic England

We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive pension scheme starting at 28% employer contributions, a generous 28 days holiday, corporate discounts, free entry into English Heritage sites across the country and development opportunities to ensure you achieve your goals.

We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for everyone. Diversity helps us to perform better and attract more people to support our work. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and candidates with disabilities as they are underrepresented within Historic England at this level.

Historic England want all of our candidates to shine in the recruitment process. Please tell us what we can do to make sure you can show us your very best self. You can contact us by email at recruitmentTeam@Historicengland.org.uk if you have any recruitment queries.

To ensure a fair and inclusive recruitment process for everyone the use of AI or automated tools is not permitted.

Provisional interview dates: w/c 9th September or 16th September 2024

Please follow the link for a full copy of the Job Description –

https://historicengland.org.uk/media/ekzd1e3c/financial-controller.odt

Location: Wiltshire, GB

Posted Date: 9/27/2024